Every monster was a man first.
EDWARD ALBEEI have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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